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The EREF Call for Proposals is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW), UNIDO, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID) and Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and is part of activities aiming at the 22% target by 2020 for off-grid supply of rural population served from renewable energy. Project proposals cover all ECOWAS countries and refer to projects based on pure renewable energy systems as well as hybrid systems, including PV, mini hydro power, biogas, biomass gasifier, partly combined with diesel generators and batters storage. Applicants are NGOs, government organisations and private enterprises proposing different types of management and tariff systems.